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Melodi

Melodi reached its high-water mark in 2021 at number 2,608, and has been recorded 2,072 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,067th. About 2,000 Melodis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Melodi

By the numbers

Total US births
2,072
Estimated living today
2,000
Median age today
29
Peak year
2021
Best rank
2,608th
Rank in 2025
3,067th
First recorded
1946

How old the living Melodis are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,072 babies given the name since 1946, about 2,000 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 780 of them are children and 220 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Melodi is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Melodi is most concentrated in Texas (4.8×), California (3.0×), Florida (2.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2021

The most popular girls’ names the year Melodi peaked:

All the names of 2021

Melodi elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Melodi +1 spelling 105 6,653rd
England and Wales girls Melodi 69 3,160th
Switzerland girls Melodi 46 830th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Melodi: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Melodi 32 0.003% 764th
French girls Switzerland Melodi 13 0.003% 656th
Italian girls Switzerland Melodi 1 0.002% 168th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Melodi among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Melodi 21 32

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Melodi lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 480 women called Melodi were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Granada Melodi 37 0.077 782
Huelva Melodi 20 0.074 887
Lugo Melodi 12 0.072 888
Ávila Melodi 5 0.063 921
Almería Melodi 23 0.061 1,113
Albacete Melodi 10 0.051 992

Listed in 29 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 23 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.